Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 22:33:30 -0700 From: Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com> To: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: CLARITY re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3 Message-ID: <C69AC20A-225C-478D-B0C8-B2F018B555C6@netconsonance.com> In-Reply-To: <484736E0.6090004@samsco.org> References: <9B7FE91B-9C2E-4732-866C-930AC6022A40@netconsonance.com> <4846E637.9080101@samsco.org> <BFF61274-C192-4361-9DEB-93DED2E02CA7@netconsonance.com> <48472DB6.5030909@samsco.org> <6010676B-91B0-4AF8-ACF8-039A59B29331@netconsonance.com> <484736E0.6090004@samsco.org>
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I'm going to be offline for a week starting now, so please don't read my lack of answers as anything other than "out of town". Sorry. For clarity: I'm not asking for anyone to fix anything. I honestly believe most developers are addressing problems as fast as they can. I'd help them in any way I could. I am suggesting that given that the current bug list for 6.3-RELEASE is both (a) too large and (b) breaks things that work fine in 6.2 ... that I think pushing 6.2 (the real stable release) into EoL is a bit rushed. I sympathize with the development costs of maintaining old versions. Again, I will help in any way I can. On my return next week I would happily build and provide 6.3-RELEASE systems for any developer who needs a test environment for reported bugs that affect hardware I have in my possession. Free boxes, free bandwidth, power, etc. No problem. Free my time in whatever way I can help. But until such time as the current bug list for 6.3 hardware reduces to somewhere less than 100% likelyhood of experiencing failures after an upgrade, there's just no way I can take our production environment forward. Going "bravely forward" to guaranteed failure isn't a great way to enjoy your job :-( Which means I'll be doing our security patches by hand. Because it may be time intensive, but it's less likely to cause a production failure. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness
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